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From: Whirly on 26 Feb 2010 10:51
When I read this, I was suspect of the validity of this, but astonishingly,
this worked for me too. Unlike others, who had the problem on a MACHINE, I
received a single DOCUMENT that had this issue somehow embedded in it...and
this solution worked for that document.


"Gil" wrote:

> I have the same problem. Here's what I figured out:
>
> Whenever a document contains a header or footer with a page number selected
> from the page number gallery, the format painter double click mode does not
> "stick". Once you insert the page number, the format painter double click
> goes away on its own after you apply it once. But much worse, it also goes
> away if you scroll - by mouse or keyboard - just a little bit in the document
> (about a page).
>
> Fortunately, the workaround is quite simple: insert a page number field
> manually via Quick Parts instead of the gallery.
>
> I think the problem started happening with SP1, so that might explain why
> the problem is only happening on some machines.
>
> Gil
>
>
> "Roberta" wrote:
>
> > The format painter works with a single click, however when double-clicked it
> > works once then I have to go back and click it from the tool bar. Is this a
> > bug in 2007? Not every PC here with Word 2007 is doing this. We are on
> > Windows XP Pro.
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